*Erik*
“There’s my favorite girl,” Helga says, walking straight past me without a glance as she goes straight to Ellie, arms out to take Mani from her.
“I’m glad you came,” I call out, but she ignores me completely.
“This is the person you chose to tell about your curse?” Harald asks skeptically.
I nod, smiling as she holds my daughter, her free arm around my wife. “Yes. Look at her. She loves my girls almost as much as I do. She’d do anything to keep them safe.”
“And you want to bring her back with us?” my brother scoffs.
“Yes,” I say. “She is the midwife. She’s been teaching Ellie, but I need someone to care for her when it’s time.”
Anders wraps his arm around my neck. “Then we shall make the land sound amazing.”
I shake my head at them. “No,” I tell them. “We tell them
